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Rain World shows off its eerie locales with new videos
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Stray Cat Crossing will spirit you away and into a nightmare
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Experience the slow crawl toward death and decay as a lonely old lady
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Scale is exposing the challenges of scaling videogames
Scale is a puzzle game with a straightforward elevator pitch: “You wield a device that can make any item any size.” This is a popular pitch. It earned the game $108,020 in funding from over 5,000 backers during its Kickstarter campaign. Steve Swink, Scale’s creator, subsequently created an alpha ver
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PSA: The Hitman movie is another truly awful videogame adaptation
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Here’s a game that lets you wipe the smile off a stupid emoji’s face
Some people like smiling at strangers and saying hello to passersby. Bless their souls, those creepily friendly weirdoes! I, as you may have guessed, am not one of those people. Nothing warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart quite like strangers giving me the “Fuck right off!” look. As such, Boom!
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The return of Dishonored
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Hyper Light Drifter gets a pretty, new trailer and (finally!) a release date
Hyper Light Drifter, like Rain World and a few others, seems like one of those games that exists only in shiny gifs on Twitter, so it comes as massively exciting news that Heart Machine’s mesmerizing action RPG finally has a release date. That’s right! Hyper Light Drifter comes out Spring 2016 and t
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Lucas Pope’s latest game replaces the evils of communism with the evils of capitalism
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Why is Rocket League’s jumping so much fun?
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Welcome back to the old Internet. It had problems too
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